Cropping and straightening

When I'm photographing a subject that includes a horizontal or a vertical line, …for example, a horizon, or a building. I make an effort to try to be sure that …those lines are perfectly horizontal or vertical. …But I don't always get it right. In this case for example, it looks like …we have a little bit of a crooked horizon. …And that means I need to rotate the image just a little bit. …For other reasons you might also want to crop an image, even if you don't need to …rotate it. Let's take a look at how we can use the …crop tool to both rotate and crop our images. …I'll go ahead and choose the crop tool from the toolbox.…

I can also press the letter C on the keyboard, which is the keyboard shortcut …for the crop tool. On the Options bar, I can specify the …aspect ratio that I want to use for my crop. …I can chose Unconstrained if I want to be unlimited in the specific shape, the …relationship between width and height for my crop. …I can also specify Original ratio if I want to retain the original aspect ratio …

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4/23/2012

Often photographers who want to learn to use Adobe Photoshop just dive in and figure out how to do what they need to do. This is all well and good, but with this approach you're likely to miss out on features that could help you, ways of working more efficiently, and an overall understanding of how Photoshop works. In this course Tim Grey takes you systematically through Photoshop's interface and tools, then shows you how to make basic adjustments and output your work for sharing. Whether you've been using Photoshop for a little while or you're just getting started, this workshop will make sure you always know where you are and where you're headed.